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BOSTON UNIVERSITY v. CLERK-MAGISTRATE

SJC-13551.

245 N.E.3d 207 (2024)

495 Mass. 56

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY & others v. CLERK-MAGISTRATE OF the CAMBRIDGE DIVISION OF the DISTRICT COURT DEPARTMENT & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

Decided November 14, 2024.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey J. Pyle, Boston, for the petitioners.

Benjamin Urbelis, (Janice Bassil, Michael Callanan, Chelsea, David Grimaldi, Cambridge, Stephen Neyman, Boston, Timothy R. Flaherty, Dedham, & Liana LaMattina also present) for John Doe No. 1 & others.

Kevin J. Mahoney, Cambridge, for John Doe No. 15.

Gabriel Thornton, Assistant Attorney General, for the respondent.

Peter J. Haley, Boston, for Association of Magistrates and Assistant Clerks of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: Budd, C.J., Kafker, Wendlandt, & Wolohojian, JJ.

Responding to media requests following the filing of applications for criminal complaints against alleged clients of a prostitution ring, a clerk-magistrate chose to permit public access to the show cause hearings at which the applications would be considered. She declined, however, to grant the media's requests for the underlying applications...

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